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Anyone who's spent time with women's media is well acquainted with Jezebel, the fun, smart and appropriately snarky website started by Anna Holmes in 2007. The goal, according to Holmes, was to appeal to female readers without talking down to them.

When the authors on the 2013 Man Booker Prize long list were recently asked to reveal their favourite first line, one of them, Eleanor Catton, chose the first sentence of Faces in the Water by Janet Frame:"They have said that we owe allegiance to Safety, that he is our Red Cross who will provide us with ointment and bandages for our wounds and remove the foreign ideas the glass beads of fantasy the bent hairpins of unreason embedded in our minds. "
Eleanor Catton is longlisted for her second novel The Luminaries.